Bill Gates Quotes About Polio

Quotes about: Polio

• Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

  Bill Gates

  Disease, Vulnerable, Ninety

• I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

  Bill Gates

  Philosophy, Thinking, Disease

  "Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

• Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

  Bill Gates

  Special, Disease, Polio

  "Bill Gates Is Trying To Eliminate Polio, But Radical Islamists Keep Killing People To Stop Him" by Michael Kelley, www.sfgate.com. March 1, 2013.

• If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Government, Play

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

• I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can.

  Bill Gates

  Cancer, Thinking, Starting Up

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

• We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.

  Bill Gates

  Creating, World, Responsible

• With polio, we've gone several years with no polio in all of Africa, but now with this we're having to go and mop up in that whole region, so it's a bit of a setback for polio. So in parallel we have to go back and get rid of those cases.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Gone, Cases

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

• If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Zero, Years

  "Bill Gates' Goal: Get Rid Of Polio, Forever". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. June 13, 2010.

• In most of these things our foundation is a co-funder, so I can say that a polio or an HIV vaccine, that I'm putting our resources behind it in a very big way and the U.S. government would be the best partner for those efforts.

  Bill Gates

  Vaccines, Government, Effort

  Source: www.geekwire.com

• We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics.

  Bill Gates

  Vaccines, Miracle, Antibiotics

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next several years, we expect to drive the number of [polio] cases back down to zero because that is likely to be the second disease after smallpox that we completely eradicate.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Zero, Years

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

• If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights.

  Bill Gates

  Math, Medicine, People

  Source: www.geekwire.com

• India just went 3 years with no cases [of polio]. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the Taliban have not allowed vaccinators to come in and have even attacked vaccinators. We are hopeful this will get resolved since no one wants their kid to be paralyzed. I spend a lot of time making sure the polio campaign is doing the best it can. We have great computer models that help guide our activities.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Years, Hopeful

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 10, 2014.

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